Happy Birthday to Laird

Laird is three today. May we survive the next year.



In other news, the Seals came to visit for the weekend from their dusty border town. Unfortunately, we only got a picture of their youngest, along with all the youngest daughters from some of our lawyer friends, all of which were born within a year of each other.


Lucy is the youngest (and cutest)

Also, we enjoyed a visit from Steve and Kalina for dinner on Sunday night.


There is actually only one Lucy.

Who's going to turn down a Junior Mint?

Some notable happenings in and around our house:


Jeff lost another front tooth. When the tooth fairy showed up, he was excited enough to wake Sheralie up in the middle of the night to celebrate (fortunately I slept through the celebration).


After a long hiatus, "The Office" returns to the air on Thursday night. High jinx are sure to ensue.


We enjoyed a visit from Uncle Mark and his friend Amy on general conference weekend. Laird especially enjoyed having people who weren't used to his non-stop chatter boxing. Mark and Amy were good sports.


POST SCRIPT (APRIL 10): Mark and Amy are now engaged to be married. Welcome to the family Amy!


The exciting state of Kansas saw their school win the national championship for college basketball by beating Memphis. One thing we can take away from this game is that sometimes the fouling game does work, especially when the team winning by 9 points with 2:12 left (Memphis) cannot hit free throws to save their lives. A great comeback and victory by Kansas. Memphis is back in the gym working on their free throws.


Jeffrey starts his soccer career today. Jeffrey will train in Humble for now, but will soon go international. We decided taking him out of the United States will better refine his skills, since pretty much everywhere else in the world loves soccer, and in the US it is ranked behind baseball, basketball, football, hockey and Nintendo Wii.


While Lucy hasn't really done anything notable, she is still cute as a button at 5 months old.


President Bush formally asked Congress to approve the free trade agreement with Columbia. This gives Congress 90 legislative days to act. (Or what? They are going to jail?) This is really a no-brainer, as currently most Columbian products enter the US duty-free (average of about 8%) while US exports currently average about a 35% tariff upon entering Columbia. A huge benefit to US producers and a benefit to US consumers and to Columbia. Nevertheless, the knee-jerk reaction from unions (and hence Clinton and Obama) will be against it. Should be interesting.